The virus does not discriminate. There is no forced stigma in having contracted it. We want to find the virus, and we will, as we are with this family, with anyone who has it, to ensure that their health and wellbeing are looked after and we stop it spreading further in the community.
This is a New Zealand family that is cooperating fully and who deserve to have their privacy None of the people who have tested positive there or indeed other managed cases requires hospital-level care presently.
Plans are in place to protect our communities and if we all do our bit we will get through this. I know that the virus reemerging in our community has caused alarm and the unknown is scary. It caused anxiety for many of us.
We have been here before and we can get through it if we work together. We are working hard to put together the pieces of the puzzle about how this family became infected and work is progressing apace to look up the movements, follow the movements of the people who have tested positive and to contact trace anyone who may have had or been in contact with them. We are testing all close and casual contacts of the people who have tested positive for COVID-19.
